Example sentences of "i [verb] they the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 3 | Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are . |
| 4 | Er so I mean that c because er I mean they the steel balls and steel rollers go into the bin I mean they ca n't be used for anything . |
| 5 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 6 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 7 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 8 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 9 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 10 | I told them the truth — he visits me , but he does n't live here . |
| 11 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 12 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 13 | Very hard , very hard I told the lads I told 'em the union about it what he done that day . |
| 14 | I show them the Camden Market , and my brother , Winchell , buys an old , funereal coat by the Lock , while I stand by and smoke spliffs with the bootleg sellers in bright berets . |
| 15 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 16 | I showed them the place where the monster had jumped into the lake . |
| 17 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 18 | As I handed them the keys to their new home it was like unlocking the door to their future happiness . ’ |
| 19 | I owe them the worst : they all but destroyed me " ) , all this made Nizan an obvious candidate for a highly sectarian , aggressive , isolationist communist party . |
| 20 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 21 | Shall I tell them the latest news ? |
| 22 | I sent them the recycling . |
| 23 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 24 | I went around being nice to children for a while , being a sort of modern Pied Piper , but I learnt that they 're a manipulative lot and crazy for money , literally crazy for it , so I gave them the elbow . |
| 25 | I gave them the address where he was living . |
| 26 | I gave them the meat of the dead animal , and they gave us more food and water . |
| 27 | When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them . |
| 28 | I gave them the keys . |
| 29 | She added : ‘ I gave them the bag and then they ran off . |
| 30 | I gave them the afternoon and she said , Oh that was lovely Mrs . |